Skandapurana 7.13.3_112

7.13.3_112

Then Śambhu was praised by the ocean to avert that,
for the welfare of the gods and to prevent the drying up of the ocean.
He arrested that matchless arrow released by the son of Jamadagni;
checked, having traversed only twelve yojanas, it fell down.
And as if laughing, the ocean ceded that much land,
and the son of Jamadagni of great splendor dwelt there accordingly.
The son of Bhṛgu, equal to the king of the gods, his soul rejoiced, made that region,
which was frequented by herds of deer and flocks of birds,
and resounded with the terrible roars of lions, mighty elephants, śarabhas, and bears, as prosperous as the city of the gods.
Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-third chapter in the Rāmamāhātmya of the Skandapurāṇa.
Sanatkumāra said:
When the earth was thus given by the son of Jamadagni to the great-souled one,
she then sank downwards as if from the collapse of a mountain peak.
The sage angrily said to her: “Stay, stay, O bearer of wealth!
Why, having abandoned me, are you sinking downwards, O auspicious one?”
The earth said:
“Without Rāma, the son of Jamadagni, my dear husband of boundless splendor,
I cannot stay, O sage, my heart being captivated by his virtues.
If you do not grant me today to Rāma, O bull among sages,
I shall go down, O lord; I will not remain otherwise.”
Sanatkumāra said:
Hearing those words of hers, Kaśyapa, best of ascetics,
spoke angrily to the earth, as if burning [her] with his splendor: